Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry TS Eliot Prize and elegies for David Berman

and elegies for David Berman and George Floyd unfold amid the global pandemic

but the collection included both material culled from a recently recovered 1906 daybook and a final set of poems written over the last two years of his life

empathy and imagination in the face of uncompromising and unpredictable circumstances

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Other poems respond to a mass shooting in her home neighbourhood

Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry TS Eliot Prize and elegies for David BermanSpell poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe. Spells brings together over forty contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them so that it might be remade anew. Contributors include: Kaveh Akbar, Rachael Allen, Nuar Alsadir, Khairani Barokka, Emily Berry, A. K. Blakemore, Jen Calleja, Anthony V.